Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

This isn’t about the merits of US tariff policy, because we still don’t have one. Yesterday’s rollout was not credible. First, the administration was unable to choose a path until very late ...

As Ben Casselman reports in The New York Times, economists view the Trump administration’s scientific research cuts with greater alarm than other economic policies like tariffs or federal ...

The growing appetite for reliable, clean power has helped thrust nuclear energy back into the national conversation after decades of declining fortunes. Yet this nuclear resurgence faces formidable ...

Herman Kahn's innate optimism flourished during 1970s US-Soviet détente when Kahn's Hudson Institute countered fashionable environmental catastrophism with robust techno-capitalist futurism. While ...

It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted.In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin avert postwar conflict by splitting the ...

I was there at the dawn of the New Right. In December 2016 I spoke at a conference in Glen Cove, New York, on the Christian-Jewish Alliance: Reclaiming and Rebuilding Conservatism.My topic: Donald ...

Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...

Talk about remarkable economic coincidences. In 1925, exactly one hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes wrote an economic pamphlet entitled “The economic consequences of Mr. Churchill.” ...

There is a great deal of pearl-clutching going on in the halls of intellectual excellence in Washington DC. Donald Trump, we are reliably informed, is definitely going to pull the United States out of ...